January 2010
13 posts
E.O. Wilson: Trailhead →
She had taken the only initiatives she ever took all in a burst, at the beginning of her adult life, when she had abandoned the colony of her birth and, along with it, her mother and her sisters….
The Magical Thinking of Bill Gates →
Memo to Gates: Renewable portfolios, efficiency, and cap and trade are many of the specific things that need to be done.
Scientists link flame retardants and reduced human... →
Previously, laboratory tests have found altered male hormones and reduced sperm counts in animals exposed to PBDEs. But this study is the first to find reduced human fertility.
Moral Relativism and Lake Michigan
With Lake Michigan’s ecosystem — and billion-dollar sport fishery — about to be devoured by invasive Asian Carp, some commentators have taken the tortured position that fighting the invasion is an unfair form of environmental prejudice.
The whole equivalence-of-ecosystems argument is a load of $@&! wrapped around a kernel of truth. They remind me of the dumbest sort of moral...
Poorly sited U.S. temperature instruments not... →
Turns out that the poorly-chosen locations of U.S. weather sensors — which, according to climate contrarians, create a false impression of global warming — don’t really matter. In fact, the…
Technology, Neuroscience & the Nature of Being:... →
“The modern world worships the gods of speed and quantity, and of the quick and...”
– Rachel Carson
